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Definition of "caudate" [cau•date]

  • Having a tail or taillike appendage. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "caudate" in a sentence
  • "They are called the caudate nucleus and the tegmentum."
  • "The caudate is a reward center of the brain, and the tegmentum is a region of the brain stem that sends dopamine to it; dopamine tracks how rewarding something is."
  • "The caudate is a region of the brain that receives dopamine, she said."